Hello, I have some questions regarding Music management in Kodi
My situation
Disclaimer: I'm new to Kodi, not familiar how it work internally etc, however I've read some of the wiki pages already. I try to give a comprehensive overview about my setup / goals here, so that post might be a bit long...
I'm currently using Kodi for the following purposes:
- Play Video files (mostly .mkv / up to 1080p, h.264/h.265): All Video & Music files are located on a network drive (samba share, read-only) in different folders (the share is readonly for this system). For videos this works fine and I'm quite satisfied with that aspect.
- Play Audio files (mostly FLAC, some MP3, few M4a): In General it works, but I'm currently just testing stuff with a few Albums before processing/importing my whole library. I also plan to keep this file on the Network drive, like the video files (read-only, too), the size of my music library is probably around 200-300GB. Currently I manage my music library is on Quodlibet on my desktop PC, running Linux Mint. Quodlibet allows custom user ratings with a 5-Star system, AFAIK it stores the information in a local database and not the file tags itself. For Managing Tags, I mainly use mp3tag or Quodlibet directly.
- Play Videos from Youtube using the Kodi Addon: Works fine mostly
- Play Radio using the "Radio" Addon within Kodi: Works well so far
For Kodi itself I didn't configure anything special regarding the UI, using the default skin for now.
System Info:
Hardware:
OrangePi5 16GB SBC:
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/co...-Pi-5.html
->Connected to Network via Ethernet connection
->Connected to (old) Toshiba TV (FHD) via HDMI, which acts as display, but for playing Music is generally turned off
->Connected via USB to Rotel A12 Amplifier for Audio output
Software:
Remote Control: - Kore / Yatse App on Android Device
- Chorus2 Webinterface on PC Remote from Amplifier, using a FLIRC USB-IR Receiver on the OPI to control Kodi
Now my concerns / questions regarding the music library:
My goal is to at least display the Userrating of my music files (trackwise) withing kodi and use it for sorting etc, beeing able to rate within Kodi would just be a bonus.
Userrating should be usable / visible for:- Most important: Kore/Yatse App, because that's what I use most for playing music, best would be 5-Star Rating that should be directly visible for each track
- Kodi on the TV, Maybe there's another skin for this? But if possible I'd like to stick to the default
- Chorus2 Webinterface
I'm taking
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Create_Music_Library as a reference, I hope this is recent information?
(I'm doing tests with just 3 Albums for now, before I retag & setup everything)
I've read that the recommended tagging software for Kodi is MusicBrainz Picard (
https://kodi.wiki/view/Music_tagging).
So this seems to work fine for general tagging, but does it also allow to rate my tracks directly so Kodi will read them? There's the "Rating" feature which can be enabled but that stores the rating in a different tag (the e-mail address) it seems.
I know that it's possible to give each track in Kodi a "User Rating" (Contextmenu->Info->Rating), but this is very inconvenient for multiple tracks and not related with the file's tags. This userrating can be used in Yatse at least (
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), how about Kore? There's nothing visible there (
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) For Movies there's a Star rating visible in Kore, for example (
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). Is that available for Musictracks, too?
Is there an option to read the rating from the file's tag and use it as Userrating in Kodi? Because my Music source in Kodi is read only (I could change that if I want to), that means I couldn't rate songs there directly, but that's not a big issue when I can do that otherwise by just updating the file's tags.
When searching for this topic, there's a lot of (outdated) information, and I can't really say what still applies and what not. I'm only interested in information that applies for Kodi >= 20.
I hope you understand what I mean and this wasn't too much of text.
If additional Information is required, let me know.
Thanks for your help & Regards,
XXXBold
